14. He has good, Iowa common sense. No wonder I agree with him.

7. AGREE 100%

Senator Harkin makes a lot of sense. Why should we do a deal where the middle class only benefits for a year at a time, while the rich get to lock in their tax rates to grow their wealth forever? This is not a fair deal at all. I hope the teabaggers in the house feel
insulted by this deal and somehow it gets voted it down.

8. I agree 100 per cent with him. We more or less got

sold out so we could make a deal. If one keeps forcing a loss in a winning position, what do you think happens when they are negotiating from a losing position. Will we then sell Iowa or Kansas to the Chinese to reduce our debts?

11. I agree, Senator!

I thank the senator for being my voice in this sellout. What's really happening here is the same crap that's being forced upon the folks in Europe - austerity. And in NO SMALL PART was this moment brought to be by the wealthy on this globe. They've been trying to make us working sorts willing to accept the sort of wages they pay their workers in China and Indonesia. THAT'S the undercurrent to all this.
Our supposed heros - Clinton and Obama keep pushing for more and more "open market" baloney - claiming what a boon it is for American workers. Bullshit! We've been hornswaggled into shooting ourselves in the foot! Now the majority in DC want to convince us that giving up social safety nets is our only path to survival. Bullshit!

15. Thanks. We need to impose national sales taxes and import duties.

" 'A capitation is more natural to slavery; a duty on merchandise is more natural to liberty, by reason it has not so direct a relation to the person.'" --Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.